Words Andy Leuterio
First off, what's your full name?
Maria Bianca Revilla Araneta
How young are you? (Sorry, we really have to ask?)
A quarter of a century! Sounds bad, huh?
Next, who is Bianca these days?
The past couple of months have been terribly hectic for me. I've been busy shooting TV commercials
and print ads for Palmolive Aromatherapy and Addict Mobile, as well as press release photos and magazine
covers for those campaigns as well as another endorsement - FILA sports apparel. Aside from my duties as
an endorser, I have also been busy with my hosting jobs. I recently signed up as a host for an academic quiz show -
the Digital LG Challenge, which airs on GMA. I've also been quite the jetsetter, shuttling in and out of town and out
of the country for both personal reasons and work. So juggling my own private life and career has been slightly crazy
lately, but I was able to do it. (big smile)
Which personal tech toys would you consider indispensable?
My Palm Pilot, which is like my own personal manager! I would not have been able to go through the past months
without it. My cameras, which I never leave home without! My computer - my work, my folio, my personal photos,
my Palm's backup and my entire trip to Europe are all in there. I would positively cry if anything happens to it! And
my cell phone for obvious reasons.
What else, besides your phone, are you, pardon the pun, addicted to?
I'd have to say cameras? It's passed the addiction phase, it's probably already a disease! Haha! It's been a personal
passion of mine for years now. I absolutely love taking photos. I can take about a hundred photos when I go out of
town on the weekend! It's quite amazing. Thank goodness for digital photography, which saves my bank account
from the cost of film. As soon as I bought my first digital camera, I went completely nuts!
What computer do you use?
I have a Mac Powerbook G4 laptop?
Nice! TV or Internet-surfing?
Depends what programs are on. Probably Internet-surfing?
Do you have nutty fans?
Nutty fans? Hmmm? yeah. They're named psycho 1, psycho 2, psycho 3 and psycho 4 on my cell phone.
Don't know who they are but I do know now which calls to avoid. (smiles)
Favorite TV programs?
I love Sex and the City, Discovery Travel and Adventure, Friends, AXN, Amazing Race, and 24. But
I can't watch 24 on TV; the one-week wait will be agonizing. That I watch on video and do a DVD marathon!
Do you drive?
No, I don't drive because I might wind up killing the bus drivers on EDSA! Haha, no, I'm kidding! My
parents find it safer that I move around with a driver. They've heard too much horror stories, I guess,
of girls driving alone at night, which I can completely understand. I am planning to learn though, and get
myself a license 'cause I feel really useless not having one.
I do have a car. It's a Ford Escape.
